Azure Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Azure Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £609, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 50 91
Rank change year-on-year -15 +41 -11
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 18 60 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.55% 3.67% 1.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 3.96% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 57 34
10th Percentile £359 £463 £366
25th Percentile £508 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £609 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.95% - -
75th Percentile £643 £538 £575
90th Percentile £693 £630 £606
North West median daily rate £531 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.19% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,090 1,515 2,415
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.72% 92.66% 96.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 1,123 1,892
10th Percentile £315 £274 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £579 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 63 70
10th Percentile £15.79 £15.72 £10.65
25th Percentile £22.00 £16.74 £16.01
Median hourly rate £32.50 £19.50 £21.07
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -7.43% +25.76%
75th Percentile £60.00 £46.88 £69.00
90th Percentile £72.70 £66.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +55.56% +25.00%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Manchester

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in Manchester

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Manchester

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oldham - 1 £400 -
Azure Engineer
North West

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (77.78%) DevOps
2 14 (77.78%) Terraform
3 6 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
4 5 (27.78%) Fintech
4 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
5 4 (22.22%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (22.22%) SharePoint
6 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (16.67%) ETL
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) GitLab
6 3 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
7 2 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
7 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
7 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (11.11%) GitHub
8 1 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (5.56%) SCCM
8 1 (5.56%) Network Security
8 1 (5.56%) Data Protection
8 1 (5.56%) PowerShell

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) Azure App Service
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.56%) Cloudflare
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
1 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
1 1 (5.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) DevOps
2 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
2 5 (27.78%) Fintech
3 4 (22.22%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (16.67%) ETL
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (5.56%) Architectural Design
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security
6 1 (5.56%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (5.56%) Customer-Centric Approach
6 1 (5.56%) Customer-Centricity
6 1 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (5.56%) Log Analytics
6 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.56%) RBAC
6 1 (5.56%) Service Management
6 1 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Bicep
1 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.56%) Python
1 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) MCTS
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (77.78%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) New Relic